Английская Википедия:Festival of Pacific Arts

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The Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, Pacific Arts Festival, or FestPAC is a traveling festival hosted every four years, in the same year as the Summer Olympics, by a different country in Oceania (map). It was conceived by the Pacific Community (former "Secretariat of the Pacific Community") as a means to stem erosion of traditional cultural practices by sharing and exchanging culture at each festival. The major theme of the festival is traditional song and dance. The 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts was hosted by American Samoa from 20 July to 2 August 2008; it was the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts.

Organisation

The Pacific Cultural Council (former "Pacific Arts Council" or "Council of Pacific Arts," originally "South Pacific Arts Festival Council") selects the host country and recognizes that each participating country desires the opportunity to showcase its unique indigenous culture by hosting the festival. Host selection is based on principles of equity and preference is given to countries which have not yet hosted. The festival host country pays participants' costs of local travel, accommodation, meals, and other forms of hospitality. Entry to all artistic events is free to the public thereby maximizing cultural outreach and inclusion.

By its vastness, the Pacific Ocean inhibits social and cultural interchange between the inhabitants of its mostly island countries. The festival, not a competition but a cultural exchange, reunites people and reinforces regional identity and mutual appreciation of Pacific-wide culture. Participating countries select artist-delegates to represent the nation at this crossroads of cultures, considered a great honour.

2008 festival

About 2,000 artists attended the 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts from these participating countries: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna. Taiwan was allowed to send a delegation of 80 performers and artists, most of whom were Taiwanese aborigines, to the Festival of Pacific Arts for the first time in 2008.

2012 festival

Doreen Kuper was the Chair of the Festival of Pacific Arts that was held in Honiara in 2012. The festival attracted an audience of 200,000 people, with 3,000 performers from twenty-four countries taking part. During her time as Chair, Kuper led calls for the repatriation of art and artefacts to the Solomon Islands from non-Pacific countries.

Locations

Iteration	Year	Dates	Location	Theme and notes
1st	1972	6 May-20 May	Suva, Fiji Шаблон:Flagicon	"Preserving culture"
2nd	1976	6 March-13 March	Rotorua, New Zealand Шаблон:Flagicon	"Sharing culture"
3rd	1980	30 June-12 July	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Шаблон:Flagicon	"Pacific awareness"
4th	1985	29 June-15 July	Tahiti, French Polynesia Шаблон:Flagicon	"My Pacific"
5th	1988	14 August-24 August	Townsville, Australia Шаблон:Flagicon	"Cultural interchange" In this year, Aboriginal Australian playwright and screenwriter Bob Merritt was chair.
6th	1992	16 October-27 October	Rarotonga, Cook Islands Шаблон:Flagicon	"Seafaring heritage"
7th	1996	8 September-23 September	Apia, Samoa Шаблон:Flagicon	"Tala Measina"
8th	2000	23 October-3 November	Nouméa, New Caledonia Шаблон:Flagicon	"Words of past, present, future"
9th	2004	22 July-31 July	Koror, Palau Шаблон:Flagicon	"Oltobed a Malt – Nurture, Regenerate, Celebrate"
10th	2008	20 July-2 August	Pago Pago, American Samoa Шаблон:Flagicon	Su'iga'ula a le Atuvasa: Threading the Oceania 'Ula
11th	2012	1–14 July	Honiara, Solomon Islands Шаблон:Flagicon	"Culture in Harmony with Nature"
12th	2016	22 May-4 June	Hagåtña, Guam Шаблон:Flagicon	“What We Own, What We Have, What We Share, United Voices of the PACIFIC” ~ “Håfa Iyo-ta, Håfa Guinahå-ta, Håfa Ta Påtte, Dinanña’ Sunidu Siha Giya PASIFIKU”
13th	2020	10-21 June 2020	Honolulu, Hawaii,Шаблон:Flagicon	Not held on grounds of COVID-19 pandemic.
	2024	06–16 June 2024		"Hoʻoulu Lāhui: Regenerating Oceania"

See also

• Austronesian peoples
• Pasifika Festival, annual one-day Polynesian festival in the month of March, attracting up to 200,000 in Auckland, New Zealand.
• Bernice P. Bishop Museum, in [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu, HawaiШаблон:Okinai]], houses the world's largest collection of Polynesian artifacts. It is also known as the HawaiШаблон:Okinai State Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
• Pacific Islands for Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia groupings synopsis.
• Artists from Hawaii (links to Hawaiian artists category)
• List of Hawaiian cultural topics (links to Hawaiian culture category)
• New Zealand artists (links to New Zealand artists category)
• Hawaiian Renaissance
• History of Indigenous Australians
• History of the Pacific Islands

External links

• Festival of Pacific Arts web site (redirects to current host site)
• Pacific Arts Association website An independent association devoted to the study of all the arts of Oceania.
• Pacific Arts Alliance Host of First Artists' Forum at the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts
• Pacific Community web site has Organizational and support information
• Frommer's Event Guide
• Шаблон:Cite book
• 2016 Guam Festival of Pacific Arts website Шаблон:Webarchive